 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1996 - 588 pages
...assumption underlying Washington's Farewell Address, in which the first President warns his countrymen "in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally." 37 Washington agrees that this spirit "is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest... | |
 | Stephen Howard Browne - Political Science - 2003 - 180 pages
...reflected on the matter, Washington acknowledged that the tendency to such associations was probably fated, "inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind." Faction was evident in governments of all kinds, everywhere and apparently forever. Its effects were... | |
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I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful... 
